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I spoke with Marvin today, he has comments on the LOI. David Hunt will
finally be available on Wednesday to work with Kay to address legal issues. Bob Priest is recommending Enron to his board tonight. Due to their peaker deal with Aquilla, they have been unable to make progress on our LOI, so it will not be presented at his board meeting Tuesday night. He has them on notice that special meeting may be called to execute the LOI as early as a week from today. He would like to be in agreement on the LOI issues by the end of this week. He has the following comments on the LOI: ? page 4 paragraph 8, "negotiate" rather than "negotiates" ? we need clarification on the mechanism by which Enron will recover infrastructure costs. He wants to make sure that Enron cost recovery is out of our 40% and backed up by a guaranteed monthly minimum calculated as the amoritized capital costs over the contract period. ? he wants more detail on the $50k breakup fee. What are the circumstances that would precipitate a payout? ? David Hunt and Kay Mann need to get together (he indicated that David has been unavailable) to address the legal issues including limitation of liability and arbitration such that they agree with Mississippi law. ? he needs some specifics on the ancilliary services (load following, regualtion, and reserves). On the last issue, he indicated that this is the "deal maker/breaker." He offered that our competition indicated that their regulated side would be providing those services. He needs to know from Enron who we would contract with to do it--"we can horse trade on the price later." I indicated that we have not given specifics to the market in searching for ancilliary services, and were waiting on the LOI before we asked for proposals. He wants specifics--other than pricing--before he signs the LOI. After talking with Ozzie and Lloyd, here is the game plan: ? get the Entergy tariff and price the ancilliary services with Entergy as the provider ? find out who the high-load-factor IPPs are in the Mississippi area ? put calls in to those IPPs as well as CLECO, LEPA, SMEPA, Cajun, Alabama Electric Power Co-op, and Entergy and guage interest and potential pricing for providing ancilliary services ? we will need approximately 4 MW of regulation service, load following and reserves. We would send the signal and communicate with the ancilliary service provider. ? Once we have gathered some preliminary information, call Marvin on Wednesday and let him know that we expect to go with Entergy during the first 60 days beginning May 1 and select/negotiate/contract with one of the above for the balance of the contract. In no case would the pricing be higher than the entergy tariff rates. I would like to have Christi and Lloyd available for the call to Marvin. How does all this sound??
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